Home Education School building in Karachi remains in illegal occupation of contractor for six years

School building in Karachi remains in illegal occupation of contractor for six years

0
School building in Karachi remains in illegal occupation of contractor for six years
Classes commence after removal of contractor's occupation from the school

Sindh School Education Department had failed to take over the building after it was completed in 2016; building vacated on the orders of Sindh Ombudsman   

Karachi

As a result of slackness and irresponsibility of Sindh School Education Department’s officials, the newly built building of Ebrahim Ali Bhai Boys Secondary School in Karachi remained under the illegal occupation of the contractor for six years, and was vacated only after the Provincial Ombudsman took suo moto action taking notice of a news item.

Ajaz Ali Khan, Provincial Ombudsman Sindh had ordered action on a news item that appeared in a local English newspaper on January 12, 2023 with a heading ‘School building rented out to tenants’, an official handout said on Wednesday.

During proceedings, it was found that Ebrahim Ali Bhai Boys Secondary School was completed in the year 2016, but the School Education Department failed to  take over the school building despite a lapse of six years resultantly children were deprived of such a huge school facility.

School during illegal occupation -Sindh Courier
School building during illegal occupation

It also transpired that the contractor had illegally occupied the building and doing his private business in the school premises and allowed his private watchmen to live with their families in the halls of the school meant for labs. Besides, the said contractor also illegally occupied three rooms of Boys Secondary School functioning in the said premises.

Due to such illegal occupation Primary School within the boundary of Ebrahim Ali Bhai Boys Secondary School was not functioning to its full capacity as there was no enrollment in class IV and V.  During hearing the Director School Education (ES&HS) Karachi as well as Superintending Engineer Education Works were directed to clarify the reasons of not taking over the building though completed six years back, as a result of which, the department awoke from deep slumber and got vacated the school building from the contractor and started regular classes.

_________________

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here